Self righting

[the man]

I dont think righting your self will be very important. One how offten are you going over the bump? And two if you are fliped durring the finaly you most likely wont have time to right your self and hang.

[Chris is me]

Don't tip and you don't have to right yourself...

The easiest way to integrate self righting into a robot is to make your hanging mechanism have enough torque to do it, probably. Seeing as 2791's hanger is somewhere between a non load bearing arm and nonexistent (I'll tell you which in 4 days...) we won't be doing so this year. If 2791's robot gets tipped too much, we'll bolt a roll cage or something on top to make it easier for others to give us a slight nudge to pop us back.

Though I don't see our robot tipping much. Famous last words? Perhaps.

[Peter Matteson]

Originally Posted by the man

I dont think righting your self will be very important. One how offten are you going over the bump? And two if you are fliped durring the finaly you most likely wont have time to right your self and hang.

Self righting is ALWAYS a good idea. In 8 years of mentoring I have seen more robot flip on a completely level field and take an alliance out of being competitive than I can count. For this reason I make sure all of my teams robots have a CG designed to be less than 4 inches off the ground when possible.

IMHO either make your robot unflipable or give yourself a way to right your robot otherwise you will regret it.

[Jon Stratis]

To with what Peter said... the unexpected ALWAYS happens at competition. We learned this our rookie year, when we built a bot designed to hold 1 robot off the ground... and ended up with two.

[joek]

the robostangs, from MVHS said that their robot looked like a VW bug, and if they tip, it'll go until their wheel touches and they can gun their drive wheels.
supposedly, if they gun it over the bump, it will flip and keep rolling.